5 JULY 1997, page 23

In Praise Of Puerto Ricans

Sir: Taki writes that 'there has never been — nor will there ever be — a single positive contribution by a Puerto Rican' to the United States (High life, 14 June). Someone who......

Sir: Apropos Of Jonathan Aitken, Two Say- Ings Of Samuel

Johnson should be adapted for the benefit of Paul Johnson and Taki: `Clear your mind of cant' and 'The man's a liar and there's an end on't'. Simon Heneage The Old Rectory,......

Sir: Peregrine Worsthorne (as I Was Saying, 28 June) Claims

that all philandering involves an element of deceit and that seri- al infidelities in turn must make deceit and lying a way of life in all other endeavours. If this were true,......

Faulty Logic

Sir: Alice von Schlieffen is a doughty fight- er, but her latest sortie (Letters, 28 June), asserting that the Schlieffen Plan cannot be considered a 'gambler's throw' because......

A Doughty Pugilist

Sir: Can we please now have Paul John- son's defence of Mike Tyson (And another thing, 28 June)? I note that he has had a bad press from the boxing writers, a notori- ous bunch......

Sir: I Have Been Reading Your Magazine Now For Ten

years, particularly the column of Mr Paul Johnson because I find it stimulating and unpredictable. I have also purchased two of his books and taken the opportunity to follow his......

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Letters Aitken On Trial

Sir: Nicholas Farrell quotes Alan Rus- bridger of the Guardian ('Who? Where? When? Above all, why?', 28 June) as indi- cating that George Carman QC had said that 'it would have......